Stealth maintenance hobbles B-2 deployment, GAO says

Despite declaring in April that its first few B-2 bombers have reached initial operating capability (IOC), the U.S. Air Force has decided that the stealth bomber's low-observable features make it too delicate to deploy to forward operating bases for the time being, the General Accounting Office...

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